Adobe constantly evaluates product capabilities, to over time reinvent or replace older features with more modern alternatives to improve overall customer value, always under careful consideration of backward compatibility.

To communicate the impending removal/replacement of AEM capabilities, the following rules apply:

Announcement of deprecation comes first. While deprecated, capabiiities are still available, but they will not be further enhanced.

Removal of deprecated capabilities will occur in the following major release at the earliest. Actual target date for removal will be announced.

This process gives customers at least one release cycle to adapt their implementation to a new version or successor of a deprecated capability, before actual removal.

Deprecated Features

This section lists features and capabilities that have been marked as deprecated with AEM 6.4. Generally, features that are planned to be removed in a future release are set to deprecated first, with an alternative provided.

Customers are advised to review if they make use of the feature/capability in their current deployment, and make plans to change their implementation to use the alternative provided.

Area

Feature

Replacement

UI

Adobe does not plan to make further enhancements to the Classic UI. AEM 6.4 has the Classic UI included, and customers upgrading from earlier releases can keep using it as is. Note that Classic UI remains fully supported while being deprecated.

/libs/cq/core/content/welcome.html

/siteadmin

/damadmin

/mcmadmin

/inbox

/tagging

/cf# (Page Editor)

/libs/launches/content/admin.html

/libs/cq/workflow/content/console.html

Customers are advised to switch to use the new AEM UI.

Components

Adobe does not plan to make further enhancements to the Foundation Components listed below. AEM 6.4 has the Foundation Components included, and customers upgrading from earlier releases can keep using them as is. Note that Foundation Components remain fully supported while being deprecated.

foundation/components/account/accountname

foundation/components/account/actions

foundation/components/account/passwordreset

foundation/components/account/requestconfirmation

foundation/components/adaptiveimage

foundation/components/assetsharepage

foundation/components/breadcrumb

foundation/components/form/creditcard

foundation/components/listchildren

foundation/components/login

foundation/components/logo

foundation/components/mobilefooter

foundation/components/mobileimage

foundation/components/mobilelist

foundation/components/mobilelogo

foundation/components/mobilereference

foundation/components/mobiletextimage

foundation/components/mobiletopnav

foundation/components/search

foundation/components/sitemap

foundation/components/table

foundation/components/toolbar

foundation/components/topnav

foundation/components/userinfo

Customers are advised to use the Core Components for future projects. Existing sites do not need to be changed.

Components

Adobe does not plan to make further enhancements to the Foundation Components listed below. AEM 6.4 has the Foundation Components included, and customers upgrading from earlier releases can keep using them as is. Note that Foundation Components remain fully supported while being deprecated.